Boot-cleaner



No. 622,024. Patented Mar. 28, |899.

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BOOT CLEANER.

(Application Bled Oct. 6, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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EDGAR SHAW, OF SWAMPSCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,024, dated March 28, 1899.

Application lerl October 5; 1898- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR SEAw,of Swampscott, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Boot-Cleaners, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,'is a specification, like letters on the drawings' representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel boot-cleaner to stand, preferably, at a door and by means ot' which mud or dust may be removed from the boots preparatory to entering the house.

My cleaner is alsov adapted to be used for detaching india-rubbers from the feet.

Figure l, in elevation, represents a bootcleaner embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional detail thereof. Fig. 3 shows the base of the cleaner tipped up and being used as a jack for removing india-rubbers, and Fig. 4 is a section below the dotted line o3, Fig. 1.

In the production of my novel boot-cleaner I take a head o; and provide it with bristles a to constitute a brush. The head may be of wood or any usual material, and I prefer to bore holes in the same and insert the bristles in said holes, and I may secure said bristles in said head in any usual manner common to the art of brush-making. The head, as shown, is of peculiar shape-that is, it has a shank a2 and is bored for the reception of a handle or hand-piece b. The end of the shank will preferably enter a suitable space at the upper end of a base or foot c, the head, handle, and foot being united in suitable manner, the method herein shown being a screw d, passed through a hole inthe base and entering the shank of the head and also the handle. The

foot c is represented as cut away to leave one or more spaces c to receive the heel part of an india-rubber e, and the side edges of said Serial No. 692,696. (No model.)

spaces may be notched, as at c2, to better engage and hold the material of the indiarubber. The foot presents, as shown, one or more straight-edged portions c3, which take a irm Lseat on the floor when the cleaner is tipped over, as in Fig. 3, to use it to aid in removing rubbers, said edge atsuch time and during such operation preventing the foot from rolling on the floor, as would be apt to be the case if the foot were of circular shape externally.

I have shown the brush-head as circular; but this invention is not limited to that shape for the brush, but with a circular or ballshaped brush; the boot on the foot may be readily rubbed at any part on the brush.

With this device the user need not stoop over or down and the handle held in the hand steadies the person using the cleaner.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A boot-cleaner having its foot provided with a space for the reception of the heel of a shoe, said foot having its edge shaped to stand squarely on the floor when tipped partially over, substantially as described.

2. A boot-cleaner composed of a brush having a long handle, and a foot to sustain said brush, said foot being provided with a space for the reception of the heel of a shoe, and having its edge shaped to stand squarely on the floor when the handle is engaged by the user of the boot-cleaner and tipped partially over, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDGAR SIIAVV..

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, FREDERICK L. EMERY. 

